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EXCURSIONS
TO
CAIRO, JERUSALEM,
DAMASCUS AND
BALBEC,
FROM THE
UNITED STATES SHIP DELAWARE,
DURING HER RECENT CRUISE.
WITH AN
ATTEMPT TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN TRUTH AND ERROR IN
REGARD TO THE SACRED PLACES OF THE
HOLY CITY.
BY GEORGE JONES, A. M.
CHAPLAIN U. S. NAVY; AUTHOR OF SKETCHES OF NAVAL LIFE.
NEW-YORK:
VAN NOSTRAND AND DWIGHT.
1836.
Entered according to the Act of Congress of the United States ofAmerica, in the year 1836, by Van Nostrand and Dwight, in theClerk’s Office of the Southern District of New-York.
SCATCHERD AND ADAMS,
PRINTERS,
38 Gold Street.
TO
COMMODORE D. T. PATTERSON,
U. S. NAVY,
THIS MEMORIAL
OF SOME INCIDENTS IN A VERY AGREEABLE CRUISE
UNDER HIS COMMAND,
IS INSCRIBED,
WITH THE RESPECTFUL AND GRATEFUL REGARDS OF
THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
The Author had no intention during the cruise of writingsuch a book. His reasons for now engaging in itare, in addition to those common on such occasions, abelief that the public take a very deep interest in the countrieswhich he has visited, and would be pleased to havefurther means of information respecting them. The circumstancesunder which his excursions into Egypt andSyria were made, though limiting his observations to a fewcities, gave him some unusual advantages in examiningthose to which he was allowed access.
The reader, he believes, will be surprised to see thechanges which the energetic government of MohammedAli has wrou